Ferrari 1960-1965: The Hallowed Years

by William Huon, David Waldron, Bernard Cahier

With carefully crafted words and superb photographs, this lavish book explores Ferrari’s motor racing history during one of its most successful eras.

The subject of this book is Ferrari’s racing history from 1960 to 1965, a period that was one of the most successful in the marque’s history so far.

In this era, which began with completion of the transition from front-engined to rear-engined configuration, Scuderia Ferrari won just about everything with a variety of iconic machinery that included the ‘shark-nose’ 156 and the fabled 250 GTO. Driving Formula 1 Ferraris, Phil Hill and John Surtees delivered two World Championship titles in the space of four years. Ferrari sports cars racked up a string of six consecutive victories in the Le Mans 24 Hours, a feat subsequently surpassed only by Porsche.

1960: A year of transition in F1, struggling with the powerful front-engined Dinos while rear-engined Cooper blew away its rivals; Le Mans yielded five of the top six places with Testa Rossas placed 1–2.
1961: F1 supremacy with the all-conquering ‘shark-nose’ 156 — Ferrari’s design for the new 11⁄2-litre formula — saw Phil Hill emerge as World ...

Contributor Bio

William Huon has written two previous books on Ferrari, a biography of Enzo Ferrari titled Enzo Ferrari: Une vie pour la course (French only) and his history of the Ferrari 250 GTO, Ferrari 250 GTO: L’empreinte du le?gende (in French and English). He met most of the drivers of this period as a young enthusiast at Reims, Albi and Pau, and his passion for motorsport history and all things Ferrari hav...

Hardbound | 352 pages | 380 color / b&w photos